Great (And Famous!) Artists Who Kept Their Day Jobs

Minimalist composer Philip Glass is widely acknowledged as one of the late 20th Century’s most influential music-makers. He’s worked with artists, musicians and filmmakers from David Bowie to Woody Allen, and famously collaborated with theater director Robert Wilson on the landmark opera “Einstein on the Beach” in 1976. Even after “Einstein,” Glass didn’t quit his day job as a New York cabby and some-time plumber…he was once called to install a dishwasher at the SoHo loft of a very shocked Robert Hughes, who was then the art critic for Time.